decrease

Meaning

Verb

1. Of a quantity, to become smaller.
2. To make (a quantity) smaller.

Noun

1. An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
2. A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).

Synonyms

diminish

reduce

lessen

decline

reduction

abate

fall

diminution

lower

drop

shrink

lessening

dwindle

wane

subside

abatement

go down

abridge

weaken

decrement

become less

ebb

ease

decay

cut

shorten

come down

subtract

lowering

become smaller

curtail

recede

deterioration

loss

cut down

dip

discount

slacken

become small

minify

drop-off

make less

contract

depreciation

sink

taper

make smaller

mitigation

scale down

detract

put down

diminishment

retrenchment

abbreviate

cutback

shrinkage

shortening

mitigate

step-down

drop off

moderate

descent

set

reduced

bate

deteriorate

loosen

relax

sinking

deplete

failure

run dry

become few

fall off

deduct

curtailing

pull down

ruin

curtailment

less

diminishing

contraction

bring down

waste

downsize

let down

be less active

depletion

make small

alleviate

subsidence

derogation

lour

thin out

trim

degeneration

retrench

lose

understate

descend

humble

humiliate

humiliation

impair

impairment

invoice

knock

knock down

lack

lambaste

landing

lapse

lessened

lesson

let

letdown

lighten

limit

look down

lost

minimize

missing

mollify

mortify

number

🔢

numerate

obtain

outline

peter out

pick

⛏️

pooh-pooh

posit

pouring out

prolapse

prune

pulling down

pull out

rack

rationalise

rationalize

rebate

recapitulate

recession

reckon

reduce the price

relegation

relieve

remission

remove

retrograde

roll out

run down

run out

run short

shortage

simplification

skin

slash

slide

slippage

sluice

slump

slums

streak

substract

summarize

suppress

take away

takeoff

take out

tally

tap

tarnished

thriftiness

throttle

level down

trim down

tumble

turn down

understatement

waning

want

wasting

whittle

work out

worsen

wreck

write down

become lower

be reduced

cry down

derogate from

detract from

drain away

factor out

get smaller

grow less

grow worse

make a stroke

pull to pieces

reduction to the ranks

slope down

trim back

minification

be diminished

deminish

defervesce

dwindling away

ebb off

ebb out

cease to flow

get less

collapse to go down

cease burning

abase

rewduction

abasement

abated

abjection

abjectness

abstract

adversity

amelioration

attenuate

ax

axe

🪓

become poor

belittle

bill

boil down

burn out

calculate

check

chit

cipher

come to an end

compress

compute

condense

couch

🛋️

couching

count

🔢

cut back

cutting down

cut up

cypher

damage

dearth

debase

debouch

declivity

decompose

decrepitude

deescalate

de-escalate

de-escalation

deficiency

deflation

degenerate

degradation

degrade

demean

demolish

demotion

deprave

depreciate

depress

descending

destroy

destruction

detente

detraction

die down

die off

diminished

discharge

discredit

dismiss

disrating

dock

down

downturn

draw

draw a line

dropping

dry out

dry up

dullness

dwindling

ease off

ease up

ebbing

enumerate

evaporate

excite

expense

exploit

extenuate

extract

fade away

fail

falloff

fall-off

falter

figure

fizzle

flat

flow back

frugality

get

get down

get rid of

harm

harvest

hold down

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈkɹiːs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: decresen

In summary

From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.